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Traveler, USC's mascot, comes under scrutiny for having a name similar to Robert E. Lee's horse
Los Angeles Times ^ | 18 August 2017 | By Nathan Fenno

Posted on 08/18/2017 8:50:34 PM PDT by Lorianne

hen Richard Saukko galloped his chalk-white Arabian horse named Traveler around the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum almost 56 years ago, it was supposed to be a one-time stunt.

Instead, the brief performance before USC kicked off its season against Georgia Tech turned into one of college football’s iconic traditions. A succession of white horses named Traveler have followed — Traveler IX debuts this fall — trotting out of the tunnel as “Conquest” plays and the costumed Trojan warrior atop the horse waves a sword. But during a rally earlier this week to show solidarity in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., a USC campus group linked the name to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose favorite horse was Traveller.

At the rally, according to the student newspaper the Daily Trojan, Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly, asked students not to be quiet, and reminded that “white supremacy hits close to home” and referenced the name of the Trojans mascot.

The Black Student Assembly did not respond to requests for comment, but questions about the name’s provenance have increased on social media in the midst of the national discussion on race.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blackstudentassembly; horse; notfromtheonion; robertelee; saphiajackson; traveler; traveller; usc
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To: Lorianne
IT'S A MADHOUSE!
21 posted on 08/18/2017 9:24:14 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Impala64ssa

Beautiful car. Very nice lines and I love the rumble seat.


22 posted on 08/18/2017 9:28:48 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: Lorianne
So let me get this straight, Democrats are upset about memorials erected by Democrats honoring other Democrats from a war started by Democrats.

Got it.

23 posted on 08/18/2017 9:29:16 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Lorianne
So let me get this straight, Democrats are upset about memorials erected by Democrats honoring other Democrats from a war started by Democrats.

Got it.

24 posted on 08/18/2017 9:29:17 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: TigerClaws

You forgot VMI and Washington & Lee in Virginia.


25 posted on 08/18/2017 9:30:12 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Lorianne

Oh because only 2 horses in history have had the name Traveler or Traveller. Wait...

http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/index.php?query_type=check&search_bar=horse&h=Traveler&g=5&inbred=Standard

http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/index.php?query_type=check&search_bar=horse&h=Traveller&g=5&inbred=Standard

Mind you those links are to horses registered with that name with various registries, that only allow one living horse to have the name registered at a time.

Naming a horse Traveler is like naming a dog Duke. Ignorance abounds.


26 posted on 08/18/2017 9:33:58 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Lorianne

This is crazy!!!

I love that horse!! Fight On!!


27 posted on 08/18/2017 9:40:49 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Lorianne

Links I gave above were supposed to go to lists of horses registered with those names. It didn’t work that way but you can go search the name spelled both ways to see what I mean. A list of many horses throughout the years with those names will come up under the search for each spelling. I look up horses all the time and have never had another name with so many possibles come up. Remember this does not include all the people that name unregistered horses that name or people that use that for a nickname or “barn” name.

www.allbreedpedigree.com


28 posted on 08/18/2017 9:41:28 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Lorianne

Of course Traveller IX is named after Lee’s horse. Traveler is the most famous non race horse in US history.

It’s a horse. I don’t think either Traveler has an opinion on white supremacy.


29 posted on 08/18/2017 9:51:06 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: Noumenon

I know that is the end result, but the leftists are too stupid and ignorant to see it.


30 posted on 08/18/2017 9:55:42 PM PDT by brewcrew1965 (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: brewcrew1965

Think of all the people named Lee, Jackson, Jefferson, etc... Hmm...what to do, what to do...


31 posted on 08/18/2017 10:02:25 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Lorianne

Robert E Lee was an honorable man. There is no reason to destroy his history. This is STUPID.


32 posted on 08/18/2017 10:06:20 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and Israel.)
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To: Lorianne

>> A good portion of our country has gone bonkers

Well, I think it’s mostly activist media and the activist corporations driving the chaos. For this reason, the parent companies largely driving the MSM narrative should not be supported: Disney, Comcast, Viacom, and now AT&T.


33 posted on 08/18/2017 10:07:37 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: madison10
In June 2017 the Atlantic put this out

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/

34 posted on 08/18/2017 10:10:01 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

A lot of mythology surrounds the man, too. Certainly read/heard differently about his attitude toward slavery. Thanks.


35 posted on 08/18/2017 10:17:03 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and Israel.)
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To: madison10

I consider it ‘interesting’ that the leftist Atlantic ran this piece in June 2017... Like, what did they know and when did they know it on the protest front?


36 posted on 08/18/2017 10:19:14 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

...and is it all factual? They do not have the history of the KKK right, just looked it up.


37 posted on 08/18/2017 10:23:03 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and Israel.)
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To: Lorianne

The country is rapidly approaching “peak offense” to everything. Typically when a peak occurs , there is a massive reversal. It’s time, long overdue in fact, for the grevience culture to collapse.


38 posted on 08/18/2017 10:24:00 PM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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To: AmusedBystander

So let me get this straight, Democrats are upset about memorials erected by Democrats honoring other Democrats from a war started by Democrats.


... and the horse he rode in on.


39 posted on 08/18/2017 10:25:10 PM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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To: Lorianne

Initially I thought this was a satire.

Since it is not, it only shows that the left and their colored supporters have totally lost their minds, whatever little they may have had initially.


40 posted on 08/18/2017 10:28:24 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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